Today's Birthdays 9/3

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Today's Birthdays 9/3#1

Posted: 9/2/08 at 8:55pm

Kitty Carlisle Hart 09/03/1910 - Apr 17, 2007 performer & cabaret artist, Wife of Moss Hart (1946 - 1961) his death; Served as chairperson of the New York State Council of the Arts for 20 years beginning in 1976. In that capacity, she functioned as one of the nation’s most visible advocates for and symbols of the performing arts. Broadway theatres dimmed their marquee lights for one minute on 4/18/07 in honor of her passing. - CHAMPAGNE SEC (Peggy Wood, John Barclay, dir. Monty Woolley); THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA (Georgio Tozzi); film's A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

Alan Ladd 9/3/1913 - 1/29/1964 performer - The Carpetbaggers, Citizen Kane, Shane [1 of the perfect films], Lucky Jordan, Star Spangled Rhythm, This Gun for Hire; actress Cheryl Ladd’s father-in-law [she married Alan's son David]

Anne Jackson 09/03/1926 performer, wife of Eli Wallach (1948 - present) - 1946 HENRY VIII (Victory Jory, Eva Le Gallienne, Eli Wallach, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.); orig SUMMER & SMOKE (Ray Walston); LOVE ME LONG (Shirley Booth); 1989 CAFE CROWN (Walter Bobbie, Eli Wallach); film's & film's ER; Lovers and Other Strangers; Law & Order; Bell Jar; Dirty Dingus Magee; The Secret Life of an American Wife

Laurinda Barrett 09/03/1931 performer - I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER (Lillian Gish, Hal Holbrook, Teresa Wright); tv's & film's All My Children; Law & Order; The Wrong Man; Where the Heart Is; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Eileen Brennan 09/03/1935 performer; Daughter of silent film actress Jeanette Manahan; She was hit by a car and seriously injured in 1982. - THE STUDENT GYPSY (Don DeLuise); HELLO, DOLLY! (Carol Channing, Jo Anne Worley [Carol Channing's u/s], Charles Nelson Reilly); tv’s & film’s Emmy Award-winning actress: Private Benjamin [1980-81]; A New Kind of Family, Off the Rack, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The Last Picture Show, Stella, The Sting, Will & Grace

Charlie Sheen 9/3/1965 performer, son of Martin Sheen, brother of Emilio Estevez, Renée Estevez, and Ramon Estevez, all of whom became actors; husband of Denise Richards (15 June 2002 - 30 November 2006) (divorced) 2 children, Donna Peele (3 September 1995 - 19 November 1996) (divorced); Credited actor Keith David with saving his life during the shooting of Platoon (1986). According to Sheen, while shooting a battle scene in an open gun Huey helicopter, the helicopter banked too hard and he was thrown towards the open door and would have gone through, and fallen to his death, but David managed to grab on to him and pulled him back in - tv's & film's Two and a Half Men; Spin City; Major League I & II; 3 Muskateers 1993; Hot Shots; Major League; Young Guns; Wall Street; Platoon; Red Dawn

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1924 What Price Glory w/Brian Donlevy & George Tobias

1929 Sweet Adeline w/Helen Morgan, Gene Raymond, Charles Butterworth

1968 Pantagleize w/Richard Easton, dir'd by John Houseman & Ellis Rabb

ON THIS DAY IN:

1189 England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster.

1967 - After 17 years, What’s My Line aired for the final time on CBS-TV. The host of the show was John Daly. Panelists on the first show were: Dorothy Kilgallen, Louis Untermeyer, Dr. Richard Hoffman and New Jersey Governor Harold Hoffman. Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf joined the show a short time later. Kilgallen, Cerf and Francis were the continuing regulars for fifteen years. Fred Allen, Hal Block and Steve Allen served as panelists for short stints at different times.

1991 Movie director Frank Capra died at age 94.

2002 Ted Ross, the big-voiced actor who won a Tony Award for playing The Cowardly Lion in the Broadway musical, The Wiz, a performance he later recreated in the film, dies today at age 68.

(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)

Milla